Autistic Rants About Fictional Characters That Don't Exist, #2
When Sonic and Robotnik discovered Maria's room in the ruins of the GUN base, Robotnik trauma dumps on Sonic, talking about how he has no family — no parents, no aunts, no uncles, and how the Robotnik family line would end with him. “My future is a cul-de-sac,” he said before he realized Sonic stepped out of the room in the middle of his rant.
Consider that, and consider back in Sonic 1, when Ivo confronted Tom at his house. How he told Tom he was an orphan in his rant about spitting out formulas while Tom was spitting up formula.
Think about that, and consider that Ivo is clearly in his late 40's, early 50's in this continuity.
That means he had to have been born either right before or right after the ARK massacre (I don't know what they actually call the GUN base in the movie, so I'm just gonna call it ARK from this point on). Those three facts put together tell a pretty dark story. Consider that we know in the gameverse that Gerald had two sons, and Maria's baby sister was born right before the massacre. In neither the gameverse or the movieverse is there any evidence that Ivo knew Maria or met her at any point in his life.
So how could it be possible for Ivo to have no living relatives in the movieverse?
Does he actually have them and is simply estranged from the rest of his family? He speaks of family and the concept of family with such bitterness all throughout Sonic 3, which lends to the possibility. But if he was, then why would he have said the Robotnik line ends with him when he would have known that's not true at least genetically? Consider in Sonic 1 Ivo, in his rant to Tom, talked of being raised in an orphanage.
So what the fuck happened to the rest of the Robotnik family? We know GUN wiped out everybody on that base and arrested Gerald to cover up Shadow's existence. What if they were responsible for the deaths of the rest of the Robotnik family, too? What if word got out to them about Shadow, somehow, and they tied up loose ends — at the cost of Ivo's sanity and life?
On the other hand, if they went so far as to wipe out the Robotnik family to try to hide evidence that they were experimenting on an innocent alien, why didn't GUN wipe out the Wachowskis or do anything to them at all? Why has Team Sonic been allowed to integrate into human society, while Shadow's existence is suppressed almost entirely?
This is all just wild-assed speculation on my part, but I feel it's worth considering. And it would mean a lot for a future Shadow show or movie, especially since if what I'm suggesting is true, then that proves more than almost anything else how unbelievably monstrous GUN is. Robotnik's story is intrinsically tied to Shadow's and so a future show/movie would be obligated to look into it more deeply.